Update: One hour later, it seems the AMA is a no-go. It appears that Newell didn't follow the proper format and Reddit appears to be deleting all questions. Now we'll never find out when Half-Life 3 is coming out!

Original story: Gabe Newell, co-founder of the Valve Corporation, is doing an Ask Me Anything on Reddit in just a few minutes. That's 4:00 PM EST, 1:00 PM Pacific time for you West Coasters.

It's probably just a coincidence that today's date is 3/3, right?

We'll update this post if any news should happen to break during the AMA. You can tune in here.

FancyNick:It looks like Mr. Newell set the ama up wrong as the moderators shut down the whole thing and gave him a guide on how to set one up. Didn't he do this before, There was no issue then was there?

That was Gabenbot. He scouts ahead to see if the action is lucrative. Unfortunately, Gabenbot doesn't suffer from technological/logistical errors. That means this is the REAL Gaben.

Oh my god that means he's here to confirm Half-Life 3. He got out of the locked office door.

Sir Thomas Sean Connery:So basically Reddit is a being a piece of crap and the mods there are throwing a shitfit because one of the biggest names in the entire games industry didn't format correctly.

I'm so surprised right now. See this? This is my surprised face. Because I'm surprised.

You'd almost think Reddit was a great big pile of over-entitled assholes who don't know the meaning of community relations. Oh well, back to their important work defending jailbait and revenge porn boards i suppose.

Sir Thomas Sean Connery:So basically Reddit is a being a piece of crap and the mods there are throwing a shitfit because one of the biggest names in the entire games industry didn't format correctly.

I'm so surprised right now. See this? This is my surprised face. Because I'm surprised.

You'd almost think Reddit was a great big pile of over-entitled assholes who don't know the meaning of community relations. Oh well, back to their important work defending jailbait and revenge porn boards i suppose.

Have you actually been there yet? I have, and it's not that bad. I even got some science questions answered there.

There's more to an AMA than:> User asks a question> AMA starter answers the question?

I'm quite confused here. Is this Reddit mod just looking to be as big a dick as possible or did Newell breach some great law of the land that must never be broken lest the world come to an end?

Whichever the case, this is just stupid. The hell's wrong with you, Reddit?

Sir Thomas Sean Connery:So basically Reddit is a being a piece of crap and the mods there are throwing a shitfit because one of the biggest names in the entire games industry didn't format correctly.

I'm so surprised right now. See this? This is my surprised face. Because I'm surprised.

This is made more poignant by your avatar; or more to the point Connery's expressions in that scene. Just sayin'.

-edit-It seems that Reddit requires AMAs to be done in two fashions:

1: Unannounced

2: Scheduled with the mods in advanceSince Newell said he'd do an AMA some weeks ago if the donations for the charity hit a certain amount the mods are counting that as a premeditated AMA announcement and therefore consider it to not be "unannounced" nor pre-scheduled.

So I was right. This whole debacle is basically just Reddit mods doing a bit of dick waving.

There's more to an AMA than:> User asks a question> AMA starter answers the question?

I'm quite confused here. Is this Reddit mod just looking to be as big a dick as possible or did Newell breach some great law of the land that must never be broken lest the world come to an end?

Whichever the case, this is just stupid. The hell's wrong with you, Reddit?

Sir Thomas Sean Connery:So basically Reddit is a being a piece of crap and the mods there are throwing a shitfit because one of the biggest names in the entire games industry didn't format correctly.

I'm so surprised right now. See this? This is my surprised face. Because I'm surprised.

This is made more poignant by your avatar; or more to the point Connery's expressions in that scene. Just sayin'.

-edit-It seems that Reddit requires AMAs to be done in two fashions:

1: Unannounced

2: Scheduled with the mods in advanceSince Newell said he'd do an AMA some weeks ago if the donations for the charity hit a certain amount the mods are counting that as a premeditated AMA announcement and therefore consider it to not be "unannounced" nor pre-scheduled.

So I was right. This whole debacle is basically just Reddit mods doing a bit of dick waving.

Fantastic...

Wow....that is some shit. He should just come do an AMA on the escapist. I'm fairly certain nobody will be booting him out of here because he didn't follow some guidelines.

Yeah looks like it was just a mere miscommunication from the mods that messed the whole thing up. Reddit seems to have a lot of stuck up admins that prefer going after technicalities than treating users as human.